2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: recommendations for patient selection, procedural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial design.

Abstract

This is a report of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Task Force on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation, developed in partnership with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society (ECAS), and in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). This is endorsed by the governing bodies of the ACC Foundation, the AHA, the ECAS, the EHRA, the STS, the APHRS, and the HRS.

• Authors: Hugh Calkins, Karl Heinz Kuck, Riccardo Cappato, Josep Brugada, A John Camm, Shih-Ann Chen, Harry J G Crijns, Ralph J Damiano Jr, D Wyn Davies, John DiMarco, James Edgerton, Kenneth Ellenbogen, Michael D Ezekowitz, David E Haines, Michel Haissaguerre, Gerhard Hindricks, Yoshito Iesaka, Warren Jackman, Jose Jalife, Pierre Jais, Jonathan Kalman, David Keane, Young-Hoon Kim, Paulus Kirchhof, George Klein, Hans Kottkamp, Koichiro Kumagai, Bruce D Lindsay, Moussa Mansour, Francis E Marchlinski, Patrick M McCarthy, J Lluis Mont, Fred Morady, Koonlawee Nademanee, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Andrea Natale, Stanley Nattel, Douglas L Packer, Carlo Pappone, Eric Prystowsky, Antonio Raviele, Vivek Reddy, Jeremy N Ruskin, Richard J Shemin, Hsuan-Ming Tsao, David Wilber
• Journal: Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing (J Interv Card Electrophysiol) Vol. 33 Issue 2 Pg. 171-257 (Mar 2012) ISSN: 1572-8595 [Electronic] Netherlands
• PMID: 22382715 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)

Topics

• Advisory Committees
• Atrial Fibrillation (diagnosis, mortality, surgery)
• Catheter Ablation (methods, mortality, standards)
• Clinical Trials as Topic
• Female
• Follow-Up Studies
• Humans
• International Cooperation
• Male
• Patient Selection
• Practice Guidelines as Topic (standards)
• Research Design
• Risk Assessment
• Societies, Medical
• Survival Analysis
• Treatment Outcome